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Subject: 
Re: time to get what we want
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lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct
Date: 
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:23:01 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.il, David Arnon writes:
[1] I'm not sure but I think it's Kaufman something.

Yes, you were write, it was Kaufman until somewhere in the late 90's (I
believe 97/98) but afterward (for some unknown peculiar reason) the import
that Kaufman did stopped (some salesman from a little toy store told me) and
that's why all the "small" store stopped bringing them. AFAIK Toys'r'us (and
the 1,2 other stores) that do sales LEGO in Israel actually do the import by
themselves.

With a talk I had with Michael (from ozBricks Australia) I found out that
the shops have to order at least 10,000 LEGO sets of each set they want to
sale which is bound to be unprofitable a round here for most of the sets.

My two agurot to the issue

Yaron "Webrain" Dori



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  Re: time to get what we want
 
(...) That's interesting, so in fact the importer actually did a good job (at least better than the situation now). because it's obvious the situation has been deteriorating over the past few years. Not so much in the price point of view (that was (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)

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  Re: time to get what we want
 
(...) MECHES? AFAIK the import tax on toys is only 17% (I checked it when I started buying Lego on ebay) hardly enough to explain the 100-200% markup we're used to pay in Israel. (...) I suspect you are right :-( The chances are virtually zero, (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.loc.il, lugnet.lego.direct)

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